Joan of the Sha-Ki-Pesh Barbershop was later published as The Black Painter Who Gave Me Color: Joan of the Sha-Ki-Pesh Barbershop. Through a boy's encounter with a painter, it depicts changes in perception, color, and self-expression.

An encounter with a black-clad painter helps a boy recover the colors of the world.

Toshiko Kamiya's Toriron received the excellence prize at the 28th Ogawa Mimei Literary Award. The official winners list confirms title and author, but no book publication is listed or otherwise confirmed.

An unpublished prize work preserved in the records of a children's literature award.